My Political Views

I came across this plea for Panarchism, and thought I would share it with you:

Why panarchism? Because in today's governing relations, we find ourselves living under distant States and governments whose form is not of our choosing. Because the planet is blanketed with States and governments that too often deliver injustice, insecurity, disorder, waste, misery, death, and destruction, as States and governments historically have done. Because States and governments focus and amplify power, using it for purposes that many of us do not believe in. And because governments today legitimate and encourage contentious struggles for domination where one group's gains is another group's loss, and where the struggles absorb more and more resources and divert energy from productive to unproductive uses.

Essentials of Panarchism
by Michael S. Rozeff

It sounds like a thoroughgoing description of the world around us. So, what answer can Panarchism offer? It seems that Panarchism advocates the establishment of political parties that are based on personal relationships rather than territorial considerations. Political parties become more like churches rather than organisations that gain absolute supremacy through the democratic process. In panarchy, a range of sovereignty coexist. Each sovereignty relies on the consent of its members for ligitimacy, and regards all other sovereignty as being equally legitimate on that basis. Thus, this system ignores geographical considerations in favour of an observance of governing relations. This utopian arrangement will, of course, never come in to being, but it surely must be a highly attractive goal for humanity for any anarchist who believes in human perfectibilty.

6/6/11
I read a report by Stewart Lansley, a research fellow at the Open University. It proved to be the most relevant, insightful and welcome piece I have read for a very long time. Such is my enthusiasm for this report that I have added a URL in the hope that you will read it for yourself: http://www.tuc.org.uk/tucfiles/28/Britains_Livelihood_Crisis.pdf. It provides an incisive analysis of the headlong drive towards unbridled capitalism over the last thirty years that has proved so disasterous for so many, and offers an economic model that , according to the author, would provide a much needed panacea to our economic ills without applying the strategies favoured by the left in the nineteen seventies. On of the many attractive proposals that Lansley advocates is the setting up of a National Investment bank. This is the subject that I will investigate this week.

8/6/11
The Kiwibank is a good example of the kind of National Bank that I would like to see in Britain. Instead of being managed/preyed upon by repacious executives, this bank has a board of governers chaired by non other than The Prime Minister of New Zealand. It is wholly owned by the government, not unlike The Royal Bank of Scotland eh!